Unspoken Boundaries

Phoebe stared at him, stunned. This was the same man who had once greeted her persistence with indifference, who had only agreed to date her after she chased him to exhaustion—yet now he spoke with disarming earnestness.

His expression carried the weight reserved for something—someone—precious, as though her well-being sat at the center of his universe.

No, I am not that person to him.

After all,